Accession Number: 2017.8.13
Summary/Description: Original two piece telescoping black cardboard shipping carton with rivet contruction and metal reinforced corners, printed label on side, "Hungerford, Edward/Wells Fargo/in 16 r." White paper label in print on side B and black label in braille on side A, legend reads in black ink "Talking Book/Solely For The Use Of The Blind/Provided by the U.S. Government Through the Library of Congress/Recorded and Manufactured by/American Printing House for the Blind/Licensed under Dyer Patents/In 16 Records/APH 18741/Wells Fargo/Advancing the American Frontier/by Edward Hungerford/Copyright, 1949, by Wells Fago and Company/Read by Morris Flournoy/Recorded 1950/By Permission of the Publishers,/Random House, Inc./American Printing House for the Blind/Louisville, KY." (Note a five lined stamp has been inked over "Provided by the U.S. Government Through the Library of Congress.") [Narrator] Flournoy, Morris Records are numbered APH 18741 through APH 18756.
Narrator: Flournoy, Morris
Author: Hungerford, Edward
History/Provenance: Donor found these in his Minnesota high school while gathering props for a play as a student, took them home, and kept them through several moves. Other books in the set are stamped Minneapolis Braille and Sightsaving Class.
Credit Line: Gift of Michael P. Lucas, 2017.8.
Publish Date: 1950
Printer: American Printing House for the Blind
Place Printed: Louisville, KY
Date Printed: 1950
Subjects: Recreational reading Literature Talking books
Physical Description: 16 sound discs : rigid vinyl, 11 13/16 in. diameter; telescoping cardboard shipping carton, 13.375 x 13.375 x 2.375 in.
